Comprehensive, comprehensible, distributed and intelligent databases: Current status

Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 551-561

  Frishman, Dmitrij ^a   Heumann, Klaus ^b   Lesk, Arthur ^c,d   Mewes, Hans Werner ^a,d  

^a Munich Info Ctr Protein Sequences   (Germany)

^b CURAGEN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CODATA Task Grp Biol Macromolec ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031689529     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.7.551     Document Type: Review

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